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Introduction

There has been a steady growth in the interactions between control theory and various branches of the physical and biological sciences. These interactions have been significantly influenced by the increasing role of the dynamical systems perspective in these sciences. This series of talks is designed to highlight some of the exciting developments now taking place at the forefront of research in Control and Dynamical Systems and to draw attention to some of the emerging interdisciplinary connections. This series includes contributions by engineers, mathematicians, physicists, materials scientists and neuroscientists, exploring work ranging from algorithms for GPS, to manufacturing techniques for micro-sensors, to problems in auditory localization of interest in bio-mimetic robotics, to the design of smart actuators and sensors for control systems, based on advances in materials science, to the creation of learning algorithms for adaptive systems.

This series has been supported in part by the Army Research Office under the ODDR&E MURI97 Program Grant No. DAAG55-97-1-0114 to the Center for Dynamics and Control of Smart Structures (through Harvard University).

The CDS lecture series is associated with the Intelligent Servosystems Laboratory and the Center for Dynamics and Control of Smart Structures. We encourage you to attend upcoming CDS lectures.


Previous Lectures (alphabetical listing)

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Pierre-Antoine Absil, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Institute Montefiori, University of Liege
Invariant Subspace Computation - A Geometric Approach

Dirk Aeyels, University of Ghent,
Stability of Phase Locking Behavior of Coupled Oscillators

Andrew Alleyne, Ralph and Catherine Fisher Professor of Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Control Systems in a Dimensionless Framework

Brian Anderson, Chief Scientist, National ICT Australia, Ltd, Distinguished Professor, Australian National University
Sensor Network Localization

Sean Andersson, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Boston University
Estimation and control in confocal microscopy

Michael A. Arbib, Center for Neural Engineering, University of Southern California
Linking PET Imaging in Humans to a Model of Neural Mechanisms of Grasping

Babak Azimi-Sadjadi, Department of Electrical, Systems and Computer Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute & Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland
Stability of Networked Control Systems in the Presence of Packet Losses

John Baillieul, College of Engineering, Boston University
Averaging Second-Order Control Systems: Spatial Invariance

Edward Belbruno, Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University
Low Energy Routes Using Chaos in Space Travel and Astronomy

Randall D. Beer, Departments of Computer Engineering and Science and Biology, Santa Fe Institute and Case Western Reserve University
Adaptive Behavior in Natural and Artificial Organisms

Sarah Bergbreiter, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland
Challenges for Autonomous Mobile Microrobots

Thomas G. Bifano, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Boston University
MEMS Arrays for Fluidic and Optical Control

James Biggs, Department of Systems Engineering, University of Reading, England
Hamiltonian Systems on Lie Groups

Bradley E. Bishop and Daniel J. Stilwell United States Naval Academy
Control Techniques for Platoons of Underwater Vehicles

Vivek S. Borkar, Department of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science
Stability and Convergence of Stochastic Approximation Algorithms by the O.D.E. Method

Vivek S. Borkar, School of Technology and Computer Science, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay, India
Learning algorithms for MDPs: recent results

Anthony Bloch, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan
Stabilization by the Method of Control Lagrangians

Michael Brandstein Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
Audio and Video Signal Acquisition in Challenging Environments

Francesco Bullo, General Engineering Department, Coordinated Science Labs, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Geometric strategies for motion planning and coordination

Peter Caines, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University
On the Optimal Control of Hybrid Systems: Theory and Algorithms for Trajectory and Schedule Optimization

Greg P. Carman, MANE Department, University of California at Los Angeles
Active Material Systems and Meso-Scale Actuator Designs

Andrea Cavagna, Centre for Statistical Mechanics and Complexity, INFM-CNR, Rome
Inferring the Inter-Individual Interaction Using Empirical Data in Collective Animal Behaviour: The Case of Starlings

Hyeong Soo Chang, Computer Science and Engineering, Sogang University, Seoul, Korea
Reinforcement Learning with Supervision by Combining Multiple Learnings and Expert Advices

Gregory s. Chirikjian, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
Engineering Applications of Noncommutative Harmonic Analysis

Randy Cogill, Department of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Virginia
Simple, effective shceduling strategies based on radomized load balancing

Avis Cohen, Neuroscience and Cognitive Sciences, Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland
Controlling the central pattern generator locomotion after spinal cord injury: Problems and solutions

J. J. Collins, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University
Random Walking During Quiet Standing

Peter E. Crouch, Dean College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Arizona State University
A comparison of the rigid body equations and the incompressible, inviscid ideal fluid flow equations, with the extremals of two optimal control problems

K. B. Datta, Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
H_2/H_Infinity Control of Singularly Perturbed Systems

Michael Dickinson, Department of Bioengineering, Dickinson Lab, California Institute of Technology
How Flies Fly

Magnus Egerstedt, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Linguistic control of mobile robots

Alison Flatau, Program Director, Dynamic Systems and Control Program, National Science Foundation
Characterization, Design, and Modeling of Magnetostrictive Transducers

Richard J. Foch, Naval Research Laboratory
U.S. Navy Micro Air Vehicle Development

Jim Freudenberg, Depatment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan
Freedback Control Over a Signal-to-Noise-Ratio Limited Communication Channel

Gary Friedman, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Drexel University
No Assembly Required: Magnetically Guided Self-Assembly and Manipulation in Fluids

Martha Gallivan, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Control and Dynamical Systems, California Institute of Technology
Modeling and Control of Thin Film Deposition

Bijoy Ghosh, Department of Systems Science and Mathematics, Washington University
Parameter Estimation with Vision and Range

Steven Gray, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Old Dominion University
General Input Balancing and Model Reduction for Linear and Nonlinear Systems

Jessy W. Grizzle, Control Systems Laboratory, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, University of Michigan
Control Design for a Five-Line Planar Biped Robot

Jeremy Gunawardena, Director, Virtual Cell Program, Harvard Medical School
In-Silico Biology: promise and peril

Amir Handzel, Senior Scientist, Beyond Genomics, Inc
System Biology in Practice: Science, Technology, Challenges

Uwe Helmke, Mathematics Institute, University of Wuerzberg
Control Theoretic Aspects of Matrix Factorizations

Ali Hirsa, Morgan Stanley, New York
Why Be Backward? Forward Evolution Equations of Barrier Options

Philip Holmes, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University
Models for Insect Locomotion: Why Cockroaches Get Away

Dimitrios Hristu, Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
Motion Control with Limited Communication

Pablo Iglesias, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Center for Computational Medicine and Biology, Johns Hopkins University
Modeling the cell's sense of direction

Sheldon H. Jacobson, Simulation and Optimization Laboratory, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
An Analysis of Finding Near-Optimal Solutions for Hard Discrete Optimization Problems Using Local Search Algorithms

Sameer Joshi, Project Engineer, Pathway Technologies Incorporated
Prototyping environment from distributed embedded systems

Eric Justh, Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland and Intelligent Optics Laboratory, Army Research Lab
High-resolution optical wavefront sensing and control

George Kantor, Robotics Institute, Center for the Foundations of Robotics, Field Robotics Center, Carnegie Mellon University
Control and Navigation for Autonomous Exploration of Flooded Caverns

Yannis Kevrekidis, Department of Chemical Engineering, Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University
Some issues in the control of distributed/stochastic systems

Navin Khaneja, Dartmouth College
Time Optimal Control of Quantum Systems

Sanjeev Khudanpur, Department of Elecrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Computer Science, Center for Language and Speech Processing, The Johns Hopkins University
Discovering the Language of Surgery: Automatic Gester Induction fo Manipulative Tasks

Edgar Knobloch, Physics Department, University of California, Berkeley
Bursts

Arthur J. Krener, Department of Applied Mathematics, Naval Postgraduate School
Measures of Unobervability

J. Krishnan, Department of Chemical Engineering, Princeton University
Patterns and their dynamics in catalytic CO oxidation

P. S. Krishnprasad, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland
Temporal Patterns in Control

Roman Kuc, Intelligent Sensors Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering, Yale University
Drive-by Sensing: Lessons Biology Can Teach Robots

Vijay Kumar, GRASP Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania
Control of Multi-robot Systems

Cedric Langbort, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Universigy of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Some Questions in Distributed Control

Joel Langer, Department of Mathematics, Case Western Reserve University
Interpolation by rational diffeomorphisms of the circle

Naomi Leonard, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University
Schooling Autonomous Vehicles with Artificial Potentials

William S. Levine, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland
Optimal control and the design of feedback controls

Larry Levy, Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University
Development of a GPS Based Tracking System for Missle Test and Evaluation

Michael Leyton, Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, Rutgers University
A Generative Theory of Shape

Daniel Liberzon, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Nonlinear Control with Limited Information

Josip Loncaric, Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering, NASA Langley Research Center
Active Shielding and Control of Environmental Noise

Kevin Lynch, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University
Multi-Agent Coordination by Decentralized Estimation and Control

Hideo Mabuchi, Department of Physics and control & Dynamical Systems, California Institute of Technology
Measurement and control in quantum information science

Marc J. Madou, Ohio State University
Merging of IC Fabrication and Traditional Manufacturing Methodologies

L. Mahadevan, Department of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University
Wrinkling, draping and crumpling

Jerrold E. Marsden, Division of Engineering and Applied Science, California Institute of Technology
Nonlinear Model Reduction: Control and Computational Mechanics

Lalit Mestha, Principal Scientist, Wilson Center for Research and Technology, Xerox Corporation
Control Advances in Production Printing and Publishing Systems

Sean Meyn, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Coordinated Science Lab, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Optimization and the Price of Anarchy in a Dynamic Newsboy Model

Michael Miller, Director, Center for Imaging Science, The Johns Hopkins University
Computational Anatomy and Models for Image Analysis

Cynthia Moss, Department of Psychology, Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland
Audiomotor integration for spatially-guided behavior in the echolocating bat

Kristi Morgansen, Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
Stabilization of Strongly Nonlinear Systems with Incomplete Model Information

Stephen Morse, Department of Electrical Engineering, Yale University
Scale Independent Hysteresis Switching and Some of Its Applications

Richard M. Murray, United Technologies Research Center
Nonlinear Dynamics and Control of Fluid with Applications to Turbomachinery

Sri Namachchivaya, Department of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Nonlinear Systems Group, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dynamics, Stability and reduction of Fluctuating Mechanical Systems

Jim Ostrowski, General Robotics Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania
Control of Underactuated Mechanical Systems, or, How to Parallel Park a 10 m Blimp

Edward Ott, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park
Riddle Basins of Attraction of Chaotic Systems: Inevitable uncertainties in the outcomes of experiments

George Pappas, Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
Temporal logic control of continuous systems

Mihaly Petreczky, Center for Imaging Science, Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University
Identification and Realization Theory for Hybrid Systems

Thomas Posbergh, University of Minnesota
Asymptotic Stabilization of Relative Equilibria

Herschel Rabitz, Department of Chemistry, Princeton University
Control concepts for the Intervention and Interrogation of Molecular Dynamics

Raharshi Roy, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park
Chaotic Laser Dynamics: Control and Noise

Jeff Shamma, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, University of California - Los Angeles
Multiagent Repeated Games and Convergence to Nash Equilibria

Jacquelien Scherpen, Delft University of Technology
On Minimality and Similarity Invariance and its Relation with Input-Output Notions for Nonlinear Systems

Gregor Schoener, Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences Cognitives, Marseille, France
Using Attractor Dynamics to Generate Autonomous Robot Behavior

Kei Senda, Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering, Kanazawa University, Japan
Towards Flapping-of-Wings of a Butterfly from Robotic Controls

Raja Sengupta Civil and Environmental Engineering, PATH Networking Lab, University of California, Berkeley
Multi-Vehicle Networks

Rodolphe Sepulchre, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Liege
Juggling dynamics and a billiard control problem

Patrick Shoemaker, Tanner Research Labs, Pasadena, California
Modeling Adaptation in Insect Visual Motion Processing

Ralph C. Smith, CRSC, Department of Mathematics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Modeling and Control Issues Concerning Smart Materials with Hysteresis

Mandyam V. Srinivasan, Centre for Visual Sciences, Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University
Small Brains, Smart Minds: Vision, Navigation and `Cognition' in Honeybees

Garrett B. Stanley, Deivision of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
Reading the Neural Code in the Natrual Sensory World

Daniel J. Stilwell and Bradley E. Bishop, United States Naval Academy
Control Techniques for Platoons of Underwater Vehicles

Howard A. Stone, Harvard University
Some new results related to two contributions of G.I. Taylor: (i)swimming micro-organisms and (ii)hydrodynamic dispersion

Hector J. Sussmann, Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University
Geometry and Nonlinear Control, 300 Years After Johann Bernoulli?s Brachistochrone Problem

Terry T. Takahashi, Institute of Neuroscience, University of Oregon
Computation of Space and Spectrum in the Owl?s Auditory System

Dimitris P. Tsakiris, INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis
Nonholonomic Visual Servoing

Dimitris P. Tsakiris, Institute for Computer Science ? FORTH, Heraklion, Greece
Bio-Inspired Robotic Motion Control

Eric Tytell, Department of Biology, University of Maryland
Feedback loops in lamprey swimming

Sesha Sai Vaddi, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Texas A&M University
Dynamics and Controls of Formation Flying Satellites in Earth Orbits

Mikhail A. Vorontsov, Army Research Laboratory
Nonlinear Optical Systems with 2D Feedback: Pattern Formation, Phase Distortion Suppression and Image Processing

Li-Sheng Wang, Institute of Applied Mechanics, National Taiwan University
Long-Duration Carrier-Smoothed-Code Algorithms for GPS Positioning

Jan C. Willems, University of Groningen
A Behavioral Approach to H_infinity Control